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| English: Quebec premier, Jean Charest (Photo credit: Wikipedia) |
So there I
was, innocently drinking my morning coffee, curled up on the couch catching the
news out of Toronto this morning.
It was an
early Fall morning like any other in Troc, (i.e.,The Rest of Canada, as in 'Quebec
and the Rest of Canada'), coolish and rainyish.
The
television pumped out the usual news: Armageddon in the middle east; election Armageddon
in the USA; more nude pictures of the Duchess, etc. etc.
Nothing
that would prepare me for what was to come.
Suddenly
the camera cut to Alberta.
Edmonton,
Alberta to be exact.
Peter
Loughheed's funeral to be even more exact.
(Peter
Loughheed was a giant among Canadian politicians. A former premier of Alberta and admired right
across the country.)
But who the
heck was speaking at the podium - in English, right here in Troc, and looking
all rested and Prime Ministerial??????
None other
than the former Premier of la belle province, M. Jean Charest!!
And I must
say that after years of only seeing him
in grainy photos smuggled out of Quebec by Peter Mansbridge, he was looking
good.
Now it isn't
for backwoods Troclanders like me to wonder why.
Ours is but
to do and die and speculate along the way.
Hmmmm.
A seasoned
bilingual Liberal politician is on the loose.
One with
deep Quebec roots and experience at the Federal level.
The Federal
Liberal Leadership campaign is coming up.
Does anybody else add it up and get an answer that might scare Justin Trudeau?
